Re: Win32 Powerfail testing

> But even then, we don't actually have to track the *names* of the
> files that have changed, just their RelFileNodes, since there's a
> mapping function from the RelFileNode to the filename.

Right. I have noticed that too and have made changes to my
implementaion.

BTW, you need to track the block number as well. Files > 1GB may be
splitted into separate files (segments).

> > Of course, if there are lots of files, sync() may be faster than
> > opening/fsync/closing all those files.
> 
> This is true, and is something I hadn't actually thought of.  So it
> sounds like some testing would be in order.

I regard the difference between sync() and fsync() does not affect too
much to the whole performance. Checkpoint process is performed as a
separate process and the fsync() part of checkpoint does nothing with
WAL, that means other backend processes, busy with WAL IO will
not be bothered.
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Tatsuo Ishii